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Sermons on Esther

The latest two sermons in my series on Esther are now on this website – Prayer and Fasting (Esther 4) and How to Enter the Throne Room (Esther 5:1-8) You can find them here

This Day in HIS-story: December 15

1737 HT: Dan Graves When Count von Zinzendorf, leader of the Moravians, became a bishop, his first official act was to ordain Peter Bohler. Neither man could have foreseen the day’s far-reaching consequences of the ceremony, which took placeĀ on this day, December 15, 1737. Peter, who had been born in Frankfort, Germany, was a graduate…

This Day in HIS-story: December 11

1640 HT: Christianity.com What is the best form of church government? Should there be bishops ruling in a hierarchical order, should each congregation be independent, should councils and synods establish church policy, or should a church be organized along some other lines? These issues were being fiercely debated in England in the seventeenth century. On December…